gotcha, so the process to upgrade the premiere's won't work (for now at least)?

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Maybe? We will honestly find out tomorrow when normal people start getting and tinkering with them. It's possible they didn't change anything and the existing tools will just work?

Although my gut tells me that *some* changes were required to support drives greater than 2TB. And some forum member alluded to TiVo moving the OS to some onboard flash storage, which would change how the OS is structured and likely break existing upgrade tools.

oh ok cool, well hopefully we can use this thread to keep track of the status. I know with directv's THR22 the OS was on the board like all other D boxes so just replacing the drive made it reload the OS on first boot. Would be sweet if it was that easy but like you said we will wait and see.

If that earlier rumor about the OS being on Flash is correct it's possible you just need to stick a new drive in and that's it. Now it's unlikely that it works this way but it's certainly possible.

If you look at weaknees, they're only marking up the Plus $100 for 2TB and $170 for 3TB. They charge $200 for a simple premiere 2TB upgrade drive. Maybe they're charging less because the upgrade is so simple.

If that earlier rumor about the OS being on Flash is correct it's possible you just need to stick a new drive in and that's it. Now it's unlikely that it works this way but it's certainly possible.

If you look at weaknees, they're only marking up the Plus $100 for 2TB and $170 for 3TB. They charge $200 for a simple premiere 2TB upgrade drive. Maybe they're charging less because the upgrade is so simple.

If that earlier rumor about the OS being on Flash is correct it's possible you just need to stick a new drive in and that's it. Now it's unlikely that it works this way but it's certainly possible.

If you look at weaknees, they're only marking up the Plus $100 for 2TB and $170 for 3TB. They charge $200 for a simple premiere 2TB upgrade drive. Maybe they're charging less because the upgrade is so simple.

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Don't they also keep the original drive? That would account for the price difference. Since when you buy a standalone drive, you are keeping the drive you are replacing.